Summary: <br> Many of you participated in our last Practice Challenge: Fall Into Music back in September. In fact, some of you are using the challenge for the remainder of the fall season. It’s been a lot of fun seeing your piano kid’s pictures on Instagram.<br> Now that November is just around the corner, it’s time to start our next practice challenge. What do you get when you combine piano with November? PIANOVEMBER!<br> Here’s how it works.<br> Students, you will tally one point for every piece you play, every time you play it. You can play review pieces, old pieces, new pieces, memorized pieces, songs by ear, original compositions, or even songs on piano apps. Older students may count smaller sections of larger pieces they are studying.<br> Count tally points when you play at home or at grandma’s house. You may count anything EXCEPT what you play at your piano lesson…..nice try for thinking that would count but this is for music you play on your own.<br> Every Sunday, the top five people with the most tallies will be featured on our Piano Parent Podcast<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pianoparentpodcast"> Facebook Page</a> and<a href="https://www.instagram.com/pianoparentpodcast/"> Instagram</a> account. (Be sure to follow these pages so you can see if you made the top five!)<br> New this year will be a live leaderboard on the <a href="http://www.pianoparentpodcast.com/pianovember">Pianovember page of the website</a>. You will be able to see how many tallies the top players have collected.<br> Also new this year will be a live total tally count on the website as well. Anytime you go to the website, you will see the latest total number of Pianovamber Tallies.<br> Do you think collectively we can log 100,000 tallies? <br> Wouldn’t that be exciting! And you will be contributing to that number every time you practice your piano pieces.<br> Step one: Signup<br> Go to <a href="http://www.pianoparentpodcast.com/pianovember">www.pianoparentpodcast.com/pianovember</a> and click the form to get on the mailing list. Everyone on the mailing list will receive incentive emails throughout the month to keep you motivated to get to the piano.<br> Step Two: Schedule<br> While you’re on the PIANOVEMBER page, click the <a href="http://www.pianoparentpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/168-Hours-Time-Chart.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">168 hours chart</a>. There is a great quote by somebody (Benjamin Franklin? Sir Winston Churchhill?) “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”No matter who said it, it is a true statement. Our schedules can get so busy and full that we unintentionally leave out piano practice. We don’t mean to skip practice, it just happens because we didn’t give it a place in our schedule.<br> <br> Step Three: Share<br> Share this episode with a friend! Any challenge is more fun with you share it with others. The more people adding PIANOVEMBER tallies, the more likely we will be to hit 100,000 altogether.<br> <br> Review<br> Thank you, Jason for the kind iTunes review. Jason writes, “I have a four year old and was thinking about starting some piano lessons to see if they were interested. This is the perfect podcast for me and other parents!”<br> Shout out<br> Leah Drake, a piano teacher from California whose students did a super job with the PIANOVEMBER Challenge last year. She sent me a facebook message a few weeks ago asking if we were doing Pianovember again this year.<br> First of all, thanks for reaching out to me, Leah. I love hearing from other teachers. Thanks for letting me know your students are excited to compete again this year.<br> Second of all, tell your students to get ready for another practice throwdown!!<br> This race is on!!!<br> Thanks for listening!<br> To share your thoughts:<br> <br> * Leave a note in the comment section below<br> * Ask a question at <a href="mailto:pianoparentpodcast@gmail.com">pianoparentpodcast@gmail.</a>
